Toilet seat



W. H. SAMOl TOILET SEAT.

FILED 1uLY14. 1920.

Patented Jan. 30, 1923.

TOILET SEAT.

Application. inea Juiy i4,v

To all who/m, t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. SAMo,

a citizen of the United States of America..

residino' at New York, in the county of New York and State of New `Yorlnhave invented new and useful Improvements in Toilet Seats, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and relatively inexpensive'hinged mounting for a toilet seat and lid under conditions providing for the independent movement thereof and without involving the use of more or less expensive castings such as are necessary in the double hinged construction ordinarily employed in this connection; and with this object in view, the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts, of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanyingl drawings, wherein Figure 1, is a plan View of a closet seat and lid With the mounting embodying the invention.

Figure 2, 1s a detail enlarged sectional view of the hinge mounting on thefplane indicated by the line 2-2 of Figure 1, showing the seat and lid members in full lines in the normal or closed, and in the dotted lines in the raised or inoperative positions.

` Figure 3, is a detail in perspective of the hinge bar or member.

Figure 4:, is a similar view of the hinge member of the lid. l

Figure 5, is a similar view of the hinge member of the seat.

The mounting embodies essentially a hinge bar or member 10 shown in detail in Figure 3, consisting in the construction illustrated of parallel bars 10a and 10b which may be formed of hard wood or any equivalent' relatively inexpensive material secured together for example, by bolts 11 which may extend through the flange 12 of the bowl 13 to secure the hinge bar in place upon the bowl at the rear side thereof as in the ordinary practice, in combination with hinge members carried respectively by the lid 14 and seat 15 which are pivotally connected with a hinge bar for swinging movement in a vertical plane and adapted to be arranged in parallelism and contact, when closed as indicated in full lines in Figisao. seriai No. 396,172.

' ure 2. The upperielementl()n of the hinge bar is providedwith tongues 16 and .intervening recesses 17, and the hinge member of the `lid is provided with tongues 18 and interposed recesses 19 so that the tongues of the lid Iare adapted to be arranged in intercurrent interlocking relation with' the tongues, of the upper element of said bar for engagement by a main pintle 20. The lower element of the hingebar is correspondingly provided withtongues 21l separated by recesses 22 while the `seat 15 is provided with tongues 23 and intermediate recesses 24 so that the tongues of the said seat may be disposed in intercurrent interlocking relation with the tongues of the lower element of the bar and in a plane parallel with lthe intercurrent interlocking tongues 'of the lid and upper element of the bar for engagement by a common pintle 25 disposed parallel with the pintle 20 and `in a diiferent vertical plane therefrom, or

in other words, in advance ofthe verticall plane ofthepintle 2O so that when elevated as shown 1n dotted lines in Figure'2, the lid and seat occupy substantially parallel vupright planes with a 'suiicient rearward inclination to hold them in their adjusted positions.

The tongues of the upper and lower elements of the hinge bar are 'arranged in staggered relation, the tongues 16 of thek upper element being disposed in vertical plane with the recesses 22 of the lower element, While the tongues21` of the lower` element are disposed in the vertical planes of the recesses 17 to the end that there is a break joint relation between the hinge members of the lid and seat lto insure an lair-tight closure of the bowl when the seat and lid are in their tion. f

, The arrangement described providesfor compactness of the structure andthe presentation of a substantially unbroken surface in eitherv the closed or openposition vof the parts or with the lid in an elevated and the seat invits normal or horizontal' position. Obviously the pintles are the only portions of the mounting which are subjected to any noticeable wear in the operation of the device, and being of simple construction adapted to be threaded into closed or lowered posiplace from one end or the otherof the e A may be ieediiy iepeced when necessary to esteie he meuning 'te is e-iiginai (zenditien.

The iA/*ention having been described, what is claimed is. new and useful s:-

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A. hinge mounting 'o? leiie bowls i'espeetively in ntei'cuient relation with 'the teugues of ihe upper and lower series ei *die hinge bey. and pin'tles engaging resiieetively iizeeuaien tongues, the

t s e' the u )ef series being arranged in gel ien ffith these me ehe levier le upper series of kg isps in e @eyelid piene in "chetof the lewe? series. estimony whereof affix my signature.

WLLMM H. SAMU. 

